pravità

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Italian

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin prāvitātem (“viciousness ← deformity”). By surface analysis, pravo (“evil, wicked”) +‎ -ità (“-ity, -ness”).

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /pra.viˈta/*
  • Rhymes: -a
  • Hyphenation: pra‧vi‧tà

Noun

pravità f (invariable) (literary)

  1. evilness, wickedness
    Synonyms: malvagità, perversità
    • 1348, Giovanni Villani, “Libro undecimo [Eleventh Book]”, in Nuova Cronica [New Chronicle]‎, published 1991, ⅬⅩⅨ Di certe leggi che fece in Roma Lodovico di Baviera sì come imperadore:
      Lodovico di Baviera, […] in presenza del popolo di Roma fece pubblicare e confermò le ’nfrascritte nuove leggi per lui nuovamente fatte, la sustanzia in brieve de le quali è questa: che qualunque Cristiano […] incontanente trovato in quello peccato dell’eretica pravità o de la lesa maestà, fosse e dovesse essere morto
      Louis of Bavaria, at the presence of the people of Rome, had the undermentioned new laws, made from scratch by himself, published and confirmed, whose essence, briefly, is this: any Christian found in the sin of heretical wickedness, or of lese majesty, was to be immediately put to death
    • 1940, Riccardo Bacchelli, Mondo vecchio sempre nuovo [Ever New Old World], Mursia, published 1969, page 25:
      era sporco d'una sporcizia che serviva d'insegna alla sua pravità
      he was filthy, of a filth that served as a sign of his wickedness
  2. an evil or depraved deed

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Further reading

  • pravità in Treccani.it – Vocabolario Treccani on line, Istituto dell'Enciclopedia Italiana

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